Plato quotes
Music in the Bible
Ah music....a magic far beyond anything done here.” Rowling
Ah music....a magic far beyond anything done here.”
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. Oscar Wilde
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold StokowskiMusic speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.” " Life is music and the heart sets the rhythm" Wheeler " The music of the heart is the symphony of life" Wheeler Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold AuerbachAll deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! ~Thomas CarlyleIf the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~MenciusWithout music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheTake a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell HolmesIf a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav MahlerWhy waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? ~Michael TorkeAnd the night shall be filled with music,And the cares that infest the dayShall fold their tents like the ArabsAnd as silently steal away.~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is DoneHe who sings scares away his woes. ~CervantesMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My NameWere it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~Benjamin DisraeliMusic is what feelings sound like. ~Author UnknownIf I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud. ~AnonymousThere's music in the sighing of a reed;There's music in the gushing of a rill;There's music in all things, if men had ears:Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.~Lord ByronMusical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. ~Henri RabaudMusic is the poetry of the air. ~RichterIf I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney SmithThere is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. MerrillMen profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~Henry David ThoreauMusic is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van BeethovenI have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. OverstreetMy idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward ElgarAlas for those that never sing,But die with all their music in them!~Oliver Wendell HolmesMusic is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. ~William F. Buckley, Jr.Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~Henry Ward BeecherPlay the music, not the instrument. ~Author UnknownMusic is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van BeethovenMusic is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ~Robert Fripp[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ~John Chesson
" Life is music and the heart sets the rhythm" Wheeler
" The music of the heart is the symphony of life" Wheeler
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold AuerbachAll deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! ~Thomas CarlyleIf the King loves music, it is well with the land. ~MenciusWithout music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheTake a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell HolmesIf a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. ~Gustav MahlerWhy waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? ~Michael TorkeAnd the night shall be filled with music,And the cares that infest the dayShall fold their tents like the ArabsAnd as silently steal away.~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is DoneHe who sings scares away his woes. ~CervantesMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My NameWere it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~Benjamin DisraeliMusic is what feelings sound like. ~Author UnknownIf I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud. ~AnonymousThere's music in the sighing of a reed;There's music in the gushing of a rill;There's music in all things, if men had ears:Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.~Lord ByronMusical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket. ~Henri RabaudMusic is the poetry of the air. ~RichterIf I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. Sydney SmithThere is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. MerrillMen profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~Henry David ThoreauMusic is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van BeethovenI have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. OverstreetMy idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward ElgarAlas for those that never sing,But die with all their music in them!~Oliver Wendell HolmesMusic is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ~Charlie Parker
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. ~William F. Buckley, Jr.Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~Henry Ward BeecherPlay the music, not the instrument. ~Author UnknownMusic is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van BeethovenMusic is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ~Robert Fripp[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger. ~John Chesson